Posts Tagged ‘ Skills ’

Playing with a ball is a great way to develop your child’s gross motor skills. There are many different skills that can be addressed such as balance, hand-eye coordination, and the use of two hands together. Use a ball that is easy for your child to pick up at first, and then move on...
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The next few memos will be dedicated to talking about gross motor skills. Gross motor skills are large movements of the muscles and body. It is important for a child to develop balance and coordination in order to participate in physical education, dance, or sports. Children love practicing gross motor skills. They do it...
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Poetry is not just for preschoolers who are learning how to read. Poetry can also be used with older children for comprehension exercises such as interpretation or for writing response. Children can find the rhyming patterns in a poem so that they can copy that pattern when writing their own version of the poem...
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Just like the 5 Little Pumpkins poem, the 5 Little Turkeys can also help your child with phonemic awareness. This poem lends itself to learning about counting backwards and subtracting 1.  Put out 5 turkey cut outs, and each time a turkey “waddles away” take a turkey away. The use of turkey cut outs...
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Reading is the ability to make meaning from words. This means that your child not only needs to recognize or be able to sound out words, but also has to put the words together and understand what they mean. Interacting with text to construct meaning is often referred to as active reading. You can...
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